Overstrained
[əʊvəst'reɪnd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Overstrain
Checker: Zelig
Examples
- He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Zelig